Distortion

Stephen Beachy

ISBN: 978-1-60864-002-7
Quality Paperback

February 2010

It’s the 90s. Reggie, a young hustler, is bouncing around the country trying to stave off personal catastrophe. With his own drug-addled sense of history merging with prophecy, and his own destiny merging with something he begins to suspect is evil, the scope of the catastrophe seems increasingly cosmic in proportions. “Dad” was never a very good idea to begin with. Transmissions from “Mom” suggest an impossible distance fueled by nostalgia for unhappiness. In a landscape of airplane disasters, arson fires, viruses and the confounding stew of humanity in the backseats of Greyhound buses, his story intersects a variety of characters equally unmoored from the reference points and false hopes offered by a mutating social order. Encountering film directors, producers, aspiring actresses and refugees trapped in their own stories of impending doom, his unlikely ascent to something like fame begins to seem like a nightmare.

Slut Machine

Shane Allison

ISBN: 978-1-60864-025-6

February 2010

Provocative, playful and plenty sexy, the poetry of underground bard Shane Allison puts everything else to shame. Whether writing litanies in praise of chronic masturbation or odes to adult bookstores or telling literary magazines that reject his work to F off, Allison always know where the line is—so he can then proceed to, at least in literary terms, ejaculate across it. If you enjoy poetry with a decadent, knowing edge, Slut Machine will carve up your imagination and leave you wanting—no, begging for—more. Brace yourself for the most significant American erotic poet since Whitman. —Jarret Keene, Las Vegas CityLife Book Critic

Chick Band

Rakelle Valencia

ISBN: 978-1-60864-005-8

March 2010

Chick Band is an erotic novel. It’s a fun, frivolous romp behind the scenes of Boston, Massachusetts, with highly sexually charged characters that are struggling to emerge from the garage into a full-fledged, on-stage rock band. Their ascent smacks of the yearning of hopeful, would-be stars with all of their jealousy and black-handedness clashing and coupling with talent and naiveté

From a short-story erotica writer, comes a novel, not to be scrutinized for lack of literary ingenious or its missing intellectual debate, but to be enjoyed for the light reading of explicit seduction and the laughable intrigues of misunderstandings and bed-hopping.

Chick Band: Not for the prudish.

Contraband

Charlie Vazquez

ISBN: 978-1-60864-028-7

March 2010

This riveting work of Latino noir follows the paranoid underworld exile of Volfango Sanzo, a man so haunted by his secrets that he escapes to sprawling networks of underground tunnels and labyrinths in near-future America—where dissidents and “lunars” seek refuge from the smoldering ruins of a nation plagued by a deadly civil war and revolution. Volfango is certain that renegade genes in his DNA will be exposed by government-mandated “gene tests,” so he vanishes before his scheduled test date, terrified of being discovered and executed. He also suspects he is being hunted by a government ministry, who wishes to silence him before he speaks. What will he find in those dangerous underground worlds populated by rebels and pariahs? What secrets does he keep and will he survive against bleak odds?

The Pop-Up Book of Death

Chad Helder

ISBN: 978-1-60864-026-3

The Pop-Up Book of Death is a new collection of vivid and startling poems from Chad Helder. These poems navigate a humorous and unsettling landscape where horror movies transgress the boundaries of the screen, sinister words strike out from books like trapdoor spiders, and true love extinguishes every apocalyptic flare-up. In this bizarre terrain, haunted by the dream harbinger of the white dog, Chad Helder offers a pastiche of childhood memory, dream journal, and surrealist fantasy, confronting the horrors of The Closet and the anxieties of The Apocalypse. Within the pages of the Pop-Up Book of Death, in which all of the pop-ups are metaphors likely to put out an eye, you'll discover a vampire paperboy delivering unwanted headlines, a neanderthal love affair across time and across the glass barrier of a museum diorama, a queer boy's encounter with the Satanic embodiment of his own homophobia, the coming out of a preacher's son in a haunted gay bar, and of course, the menacing and mysterious Pop-Up Book of Death itself.

Shy

Kevin Killian

ISBN: 978-1-60864-008-9

Shy is the story of Harry Van. It's 1974, summertime, Long Island. Three demanding people are about to enter Harry's life and change it for good.

"Novels are never this mind-bending, trashy, and Dickensian any more. Killian may have found in Harry Van the definitive sympathetic, young, beautiful, messed up 80s anti-hero. He and Shy drove me wild." —Dennis Cooper

U

Rob Stephenson

ISBN: 978-1-60864-010-2

Summer 2010

Prepare to enter the mind of a young sadist who has trouble distinguishing his own internal world from the external world in which he moves. A series of fragments document the rough, rude, boomerang-shaped trajectory of his exploits, bouncing between what he thinks is happening and actual events. U is a deeply wrought work of appalling and uncompromising intensity.